I was trained in Psychology, Logic & Metaphysics: only later as a lecturer, artist and 'venerable media grafter'.

I've been author or editor of over a dozen books as well as a journalist whose features appeared in The Independent, Time Out, Sunday Telegraph and leading national magazines. I worked in television films, one of which won Crystal Prize at the Prague Festival; and I was cited by the Head of BBC Music and Arts as 'a writer of the Upper-First Division'.

Imagine, then, being lucky enough to find yourself landed in a near-fantasy career: and then nearly losing everything, through what some might ... more »

Dog Eat Dog

Out there, beyond the abyss of nightBeyond the lightlessness that lies behind my own Eye – worse, my inner eye – A dog is howling.I know the black orb of its stareA globe of satin, you might say of it; but only if some Stray ray, lost in a forlorn expanse of rubble and Scrubland shade, could catch it first. Otherwise there’s nothing, beyond the taint of Nothing, or what is arid and shattered and forfeited and Essence of dog. I feel the reflex of its throat: A taut, fortuitous clench of matter, Pursuing the unenlightened purpose of the flesh, ...